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Speaker 2: So you can hear the chatter.

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Speaker 3: It's from the crowd. We have a big chant, a

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Speaker 3: big chance to make it all question big.

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Speaker 3: Fine, Welcome to the Action Network Podcast presented by FanDuel.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host Matt Moore with a very special episode

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Speaker 3: for you guys. On today's show, We're gonna be crossing

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Speaker 3: over with Buckets, Action Network's NBA Gambling podcast to deliver

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Speaker 3: this NBA All Star Weekend betting preview, covering everything you

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Speaker 3: know to wager on the festivities all weekend long. We're

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Speaker 3: doing a draft to get you the best value on

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Speaker 3: each major event to bet on throughout the weekend. Joining

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Speaker 3: me is Joe Delera, NBA writer for the Action Network

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Speaker 3: and NBA Futures Analyst extraordinaire Brandon Anderson. So, fellas we're

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Speaker 3: going to do a draft concept and brand, and had

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Speaker 3: this idea and then I when he suggested this idea,

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Speaker 3: I was not on our call. And then the next

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Speaker 3: day I called her editor Maleek and was like, Hey,

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Speaker 3: we should do a draft. It like's a funny story,

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Speaker 3: and so we have like we have a whole draft setup. Uh, Brandon,

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Speaker 3: walk us through what we're doing here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're basically just walking through All Star weekend.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna skip Friday, and nobody needs to bet on

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Speaker 2: the celebrity game. If you want to bet on the

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Speaker 2: rising Stars, yeah, you get better the rising stars. We're

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Speaker 2: just not drafting yet. So where we got three of us,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna go through skills contest, three point shootout, dunks.

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Speaker 2: We're just going in over the weekend. We'll do one

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Speaker 2: round at a time. I kind of made each round

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Speaker 2: is gonna get its own different draft order, so there's

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Speaker 2: no like snake draft concept here, because one contest has

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Speaker 2: three competitors, one as four, one as eight, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: And then we'll do All Star Game MVP, and then

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Speaker 2: a fifth round at the end is just gonna be

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Speaker 2: a wild card to pick, So add on one presumably

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Speaker 2: another MVP favorite or a three point favorite, and then

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Speaker 2: uh yeah, we'll talk through the events as we go

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Speaker 2: in best bets at the end.

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Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna go ahead and get started. Brandon

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Speaker 3: has very healthily randomized the order for each round, so

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Speaker 3: we're not gonna do like a snake draft. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: do like random order for each round, which I think

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Speaker 3: is great, Joe. We're gonna start with you. We got

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Speaker 3: the NBA Skills Competition on Saturday nights kicking it off.

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Speaker 3: You got three teams. Notably, by the way, I want

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Speaker 3: to bring this up, one of the teams is the

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Speaker 3: on to Compo team. It's Janis the Nasis and Alex.

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Speaker 3: Jannis suffered a injured wrist on Thursday night in the

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Speaker 3: Bulls game. Left the game of this brain risk did

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Speaker 3: not return. We don't have X ray reports yet as

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Speaker 3: I'm recording this. Hopefully he's okay for beyond the All

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Speaker 3: Star Game. So a very big question about whether or

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Speaker 3: not Yiannis is going to be in this thing at all,

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Speaker 3: whether the All Star Game, let alone the Skills Competition.

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Speaker 3: But that's obviously going to impact the odds.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 3: I am going to go ahead and say, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to make an executive decision that we're gonna go ahead

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Speaker 3: that we that Brandon to these and so we're gonna

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Speaker 3: go with those at this point because we don't have

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Speaker 3: go ahead and go with that for now. You do

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Speaker 3: get to choose if you want the ontocount put team,

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Speaker 3: if you want that, Joe. So it's up to you

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Speaker 3: which team are you gonna take for the skills competition.

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Speaker 4: So just I think it's a little bit too tough

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Speaker 4: rookies at plus one seventy five the Jazz could, you know,

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Speaker 4: Like I was looking at them, but I just don't

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Speaker 3: The rules for this are remarkably complicated, by the way,

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Speaker 3: I'm so complex. I have them on now. So each

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Speaker 3: player must complete the following course. A thirty five foot

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Speaker 3: This is the one that annoys me the most. If

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Speaker 3: you move on. Dribble down court through three moving pylons.

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Speaker 3: A short shot in the lane max Three valid attempts,

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Speaker 3: That's dribble to opposite goal and make a basket, dunk, layup,

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Speaker 3: jump shot with And the key is like the time here,

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Speaker 3: which is why it's like what we're really asking here

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Speaker 3: of like actually like trying to get this accomplish. That's

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Speaker 3: that's round one, which is just team relay. Round two

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Speaker 3: is passing. Okay, each team must make at least one

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Speaker 3: points for winning that. Round. Final is shooting. You get

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Speaker 3: If you're tied, they'll compete in a challenge points tiebreaker

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Speaker 2: Joe.

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Speaker 3: Teams compete one at a time. Team one sets the

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so Joe's going to take the rookies

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Speaker 3: a plus one seventy five. Brandon, you are up next

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Speaker 2: Those rules are so complicated. I feel like the NBA

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Speaker 2: asked me to design this contest. That's the sort of

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Speaker 2: write an article of rules? Is that what happened to?

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Speaker 2: Just read my article out? I feel like that's where

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Speaker 2: in there during the shooting contest. This is a real

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Speaker 2: question for you. During the shooting contest rules, do we

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Speaker 2: Did we remove the half court shot? Because that would

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Speaker 2: significantly change the way I'm capping this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have removed the half court shot.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well get it now. I'm thinking on the

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Speaker 2: will well, I was just going to take Temianis team

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Speaker 2: Team Thanasis Team Alex team. I don't know how how

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Speaker 2: many other brothers do we have? Can I just sub

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Speaker 2: another Onto in? Are there other guys in?

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Speaker 3: I really what I really want for this is for

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Speaker 3: for Joe Ingles to come in as the when Giannis

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Speaker 3: is hurt. For Joe Ingles to come in with an

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Speaker 3: Onto Como jersey and be introduced as Joe Onto Compo. Like,

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Speaker 3: that's what I really want here.

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Speaker 2: Can we call Joe on this podcast Joe Onto from

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Speaker 2: now on? That's what I really want here.

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Speaker 4: Hey, just call me, call me the freak.

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Speaker 2: We do do that already. Yeah, I am going to

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Speaker 2: take and I'll be specific here. I'm going to take

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Speaker 2: Team on Atacompo or whatever team replaces them, at whatever odds,

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Speaker 2: I will take them because I don't want Team Jazz

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Speaker 2: at a lot of books, I think I just can't

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Speaker 2: get there. This contest is so goofy and stupid, and

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Speaker 2: it's so many rules and it's so random, and yes,

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Speaker 2: Chris Bosh. That dude was just absolutely ice, Like he

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Speaker 2: you don't know who's going to try. You don't know if,

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Speaker 2: that would have been my clear pick here. That's that's

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Speaker 2: the pick I gave out in Green Dot. The thing

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Speaker 2: for me is you want just snow weak links. Polo

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Speaker 2: that's why there are such high picks. Guess who is

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Speaker 2: not a high pick? Walker Kessler on the Jazz, who

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Speaker 2: he's been very good and I kind of just wish

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Speaker 2: the turmb Wolves had him instead of Ready Gobert and

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Speaker 2: all the seven thousand things. But I don't need Walker

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Speaker 2: Kessler throwing thirty five foot outlets and dribbling behind the

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Speaker 2: back and shooting fayaway threes. And whatever the crap was

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Speaker 2: that you said. So I'll just take a team on

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Speaker 2: at Coupo because I was plus five hundred, give me

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Speaker 2: a seventeen percent chance at it. I can't get there

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Speaker 2: to give fifty to fifty odds or better on a Jazz,

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Speaker 2: So I'll take I'll take the alternative.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm taking the plus one hundred, which is what

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Speaker 3: we're using for this is what the odds were. I

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Speaker 3: am willing to if we want to legislate what the

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Speaker 3: of the honest news. I'm I'm fine with doing that,

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Speaker 3: and they'll get Brandon. They'll give you a better a

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Speaker 3: better payout if the brothers win. I actually don't mind

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Speaker 3: taking the Jazz here hometown team. Right, crowdedy behind him

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Speaker 3: like Jordan Klar in front of a large audience should

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Speaker 3: be entertaining Colin Sexton, right like shooting passing that this

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Speaker 3: team has like the most guards, but the team has

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Speaker 3: they have the most guards, so there's a reason that

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Speaker 3: they should be heavily favored, and like this is kind

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Speaker 3: of built up for them to win, right, Like it's like,

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Speaker 3: will I will gladly. I don't have a choice, but

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Speaker 3: I will gladly take the jazz at plus one hundred here.

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Speaker 2: Notably, by the way, this format, though it's slightly different,

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Speaker 2: they've only done it once. Last year was the only

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Speaker 4: So I'm looking at this is tough for me because

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Speaker 3: So Herder is only forty one percent, which is good.

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Speaker 3: But these are all pretty This may surprise you, These

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Speaker 2: All pretty good.

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Speaker 2: What what number? What number would Julius Randall have had

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Speaker 3: Here, give me an me thirty five to one, Matt, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so not Julius Randall spoiler. The numbers that I

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Speaker 2: for the exact reason Joe said, like, I want you

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Speaker 2: I love Buddy, but I actually wouldn't mind playing both

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Speaker 3: of the ranges above the break. But the reason I

431
00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 3: kind of like yours is if he hits one of

432
00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 3: the starry zone shots, then he's gonna edge out somebody

433
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,920
Speaker 3: who probably shot better, right, Like, this is why I

434
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 3: don't like including these in the I get it, But

435
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,439
Speaker 3: I'm also like, if you're gonna do this, make him

436
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:15,400
Speaker 3: shoot five, like these guys can shoot five. The other

437
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,879
Speaker 3: reason I'm not high on Dame, Like I don't think

438
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 3: your pick's bad. I think it's like because Dame's just

439
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 3: like Dames has a hotter level than anybody else in

440
00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,400
Speaker 3: this competition, Like nobody has a hot like if Dame

441
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,360
Speaker 3: is just like locked in and he's hitting, then it's over.

442
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 3: Dame's gonna win. But one of the reason I don't

443
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 3: necessarily love it is Dame's not a handoff shooter. I've

444
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,160
Speaker 3: done a lot of work on this in previous years,

445
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 3: where you want guys that are very good in handoff threes,

446
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 3: and you ask why previously people had, really when we've

447
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 3: been capping this had looked at like catch and shoot.

448
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 3: It's not catch and shoot. No one's throwing you to

449
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 3: the ball. You're literally moving to your left, picking up

450
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,360
Speaker 3: the ball, moving its center and firing. It's a handoff,

451
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,800
Speaker 3: and so you want guys that are good in those situations.

452
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 3: Dame doesn't do a lot of that because he always

453
00:21:58,520 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 3: the ball in his hands. It's all pick and roll.

454
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 3: Like if this, if this competition was entirely off the dribble,

455
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 3: if it was, which I think would be interesting, actually,

456
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 3: like an off the dribble three point competition would be fascinating,

457
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 3: but like Dame would be a lot much higher, like

458
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 3: he would have to be the favorite, right, But the

459
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 3: dynamics of this are a little bit different, which is

460
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Speaker 3: one of the reasons why I don't love him in

461
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 3: this as much as I like healed and hurt her

462
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 3: and actually somebody else. But I do think that like

463
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 3: from a strictly like logical putting the pieces together, I

464
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 3: think we've chose the three best candidates here, and not

465
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Speaker 3: just from the numbers perspective. I think I think we

466
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Speaker 3: did a really good job here.

467
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree totally on the handoff thing too. By

468
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Speaker 2: the way, everything you just said like, that's that's what

469
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 2: we've seen in recent versions. You've been all over that,

470
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 2: So I think, yeah, both both your picks fit the

471
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Speaker 2: handoff and the coming off the screen, coming around getting

472
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 2: the shot up much more than Dame, just like ISO

473
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,639
Speaker 2: Jumper three contest, give me Dame perspect But yeah, I

474
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 2: fully agree with what you said.

475
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Speaker 3: Okay, we have to do don contests first, Big Brandon,

476
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 3: I appreciate it like it's it's very it's very Brandon

477
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 3: to take the take the like the selflessness the Brandon

478
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 3: shows of taking the taking the hit here and being

479
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 3: like I will take slam dunk contest. First, your choices.

480
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 3: Mac McClung out of the G League, recently signed to

481
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 3: the Philadelphia seventy six ers plus one fifty. He took

482
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 3: a ton of steam on on Thursday somebody has just

483
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 3: started like hammering Mac mclung this week, and that number

484
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 3: has dropped all over the place. I don't know what

485
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,360
Speaker 3: it was, but it was he was in the range

486
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 3: of everybody else, and now he is a short short

487
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 3: favorite Jericho Simms plus two eighty, your New York Knicks,

488
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 3: Kenny Martin Junior plus two ninety, and Trey Murphy the

489
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 3: third at plus three eighty. Bringing up the rear, Brandon,

490
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 3: where would you like to go? My friend?

491
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Speaker 2: So I like how you let at the top with

492
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 2: how Brandon very lovely randomized our draft order, and we

493
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 2: all know it was not random at all, Like I

494
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 2: clearly chose which order for which thing. And I got

495
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 2: screwed on this myself on this because the whole thing

496
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,719
Speaker 2: is I'm like, I'll only take first in one thing

497
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 2: because I know I'm on Mac McClung because I bet

498
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 2: him earlier today it's Thursday night. I bet him at

499
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 2: four hundred. He was two seventy five somewhere. He was

500
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 2: two fifty somewhere. I gave him out on Green Dot Daily.

501
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 2: I don't know what number I get to count this as,

502
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 2: but I'm Pike taking Mac McClung because He's gonna win

503
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 2: the dunk contest. It's literally why he's in the NBA,

504
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 2: which only marginally is true. He's played like two games

505
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 2: in the NBA. He's putting a Sixers jersey on to

506
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 2: compete in the contest. There was a dude, who's the

507
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 2: guy that blew the cupcake candle out a while back?

508
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 2: Oh that was great.

509
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't remember who, Dwight Howard.

510
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: You're right, Jerald Green, right, yeah, shoe yeah, yeah, Jerald Green.

511
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 2: Jerald Green, who I think like, had the Timberls jersey on,

512
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 2: won the dunk contest and then never wore a Timberls

513
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 2: jersey again, which, to be fair, is a thing that

514
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 2: the Timberwlves would do. So Mac McClung. He's in this

515
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 2: because he's a flash guy. He's a YouTube viral sensation guy.

516
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 2: Again experience. He has been in a three dunk contest previously,

517
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 2: he won two of them. He has a forty eight

518
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 2: inch vertical, he's six foot two. This is about aesthetic.

519
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 2: You want dunks to look cool, you want style points,

520
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 2: you want creativity. He has been on interviews today. I

521
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 2: think part of the steam is because he had an

522
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 2: interview with Shams that came out today talking about how

523
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 2: he has two dunks that he thinks have never been

524
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: seen before. Like, that's what you want in this contest.

525
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 2: You don't want just like oh man power dunk over

526
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 2: a guy, you put him in the grave, Like there's

527
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 2: nobody out there. There's nobody to dunk on in the contest.

528
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 2: So I want the creativity. I want the little dude

529
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 2: who's gonna jump up and look cool. I want the

530
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 2: guy that's gonna make everyone be like white man can

531
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 2: jump Wow. Look at mac McClung go. I think he's

532
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: gonna have like the iverson Jersey at some point because

533
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 2: he went to Georgetown broke everyson scoring all that thing.

534
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 2: I'll take mac McClung. I'll take him out plus one fifty. Still,

535
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 2: I would still bet at that number because I think

536
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 2: he I when I was on Green Dot earlier, I

537
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 2: said I thought that he would be the favorite by

538
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 2: the time that got there, and we got there in

539
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,959
Speaker 2: a hurry. I think he's the right favorite.

540
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 3: I really I need my producer David Payne to come

541
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 3: up with a victory lap drop. We need like a

542
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 3: we need a drop for the victory lap. It's just

543
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 3: victory I'm gonna take kJ Martin. That's what I'm gonna take.

544
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go more with like a guy that you know.

545
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 3: I get him in this based off of the numbers

546
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 3: that that we put in here for the preps situation.

547
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 3: I'm getting him at plus two fifty at FanDuel right

548
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 3: now he is plus two ninety. I'll go ahead and

549
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 3: take that. I'll tak the two to eighty. I think

550
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 3: that he's got a great combination of I do think

551
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 3: that you can be if you have the ability to

552
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 3: just hang. Is a lot of it. Like if you

553
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 3: can hang, you can do more stuff and complete the dunk.

554
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 3: Like I worry that Mack, like back Wall Clung's a

555
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 3: prolific dunker. There's like a hole, there's there's there's tapes,

556
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 3: the the VIDs are out there. But you think that

557
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 3: if McClung, for whatever reason, if his stuff doesn't land,

558
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 3: if he's not able to finish them, because that's the

559
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 3: thing is like if you plan elaborate stuff and it

560
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 3: doesn't hit, then it gets awkward. This could really be

561
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 3: a bad This could be a bad bad dunk contest,

562
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,479
Speaker 3: and there's been a lot of them lately. But if

563
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 3: anybody's gonna salvage it. I think it's probably gonna be

564
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: like kJ Martin or Trey Murphy. Those are two choices

565
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 3: that I would go towards. I'll take kJ Martin because

566
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 3: I just think he's I think he's an awesome dunker.

567
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 3: I think he has the athleticism to be able to

568
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: really put on display, and at plus two ninety, I'm

569
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 3: getting a little bit of mump on him. But to

570
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 3: be honest with you, I have McClung and all the

571
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 3: all the parlays I put in before I left the

572
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 3: state of Colorado. So hopefully Brandon's right. I will take

573
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 3: losing on this one in order to catch those bets.

574
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 3: But that's gonna be my choice.

575
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 2: Joe.

576
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you on McClung, like, I think that

577
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 4: was the I think that was right play, and those

578
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 4: the right bet I put in the action app earlier yesterday.

579
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 4: But for the purposes of this, I gotta take the

580
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 4: Nick because it's the one event that just doesn't matter. Okay,

581
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 4: So I gotta take Jericho Sims. He had the third

582
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 4: highest vertical in the history of the NBA. Combine.

583
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 3: Great, that's a great five, great pull.

584
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 4: Joe so, you know, just just a little bit of

585
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 4: a little bit of info. You know, he wasn't gonna

586
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 4: be in the contest Shade and Sharp dropped out. So

587
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 4: I think maybe he's got a little chip on his

588
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 4: shoulder saying like, hey guys, like I'm that dude, like

589
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 4: I can jump, I can dunk, I can yam. So

590
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 4: I think, you know, I think Jericho Sims is gonna

591
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 4: bring back another title for New York back to back

592
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 4: dunk contest titles. Let's get it. We'll take Jericho Sims.

593
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 3: All Star Game MVP is our next one. And johnest

594
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 3: is still on the board, by the way, a plus

595
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 3: six fifty, so it was Lebron. I don't know if

596
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 3: he's gonna play at plus five fifty. Joe, We'll start

597
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 3: with you. Who do you want for All Star MVP?

598
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 4: So I've been trying to think about the narratives behind

599
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 4: this and like who could really score a lot because

600
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 4: I think at the end of the day that's kind

601
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 4: of where it goes. And I am gonna take Donovan

602
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 4: Mitchell at fourteen to one because you know, he's kind

603
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 4: of going He's going back to Utah, and I'm wondering

604
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 4: if if Lebron doesn't play, like you mentioned, if Giannis

605
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 4: doesn't play, I think that opens it up a little

606
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,719
Speaker 4: bit more. But I also think that Lebron I think

607
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 4: he's going to draft a better team. I think that

608
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 4: he will wind up having Mitchell on his team. And

609
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 4: Lebron just always wins the All Star Game. That's just

610
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 4: the way it works. Brandon says it's a coin flipped.

611
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 4: I say he's the goat of drafting the All Star team.

612
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,959
Speaker 4: So I like Donovan Mitchell here. I think he can

613
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 4: put up a lot of points. He shoots a lot

614
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 4: of threes. Guys aren't gonna they just don't defend. So

615
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 4: I could see Mitchell putting up a big number in

616
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 4: front of his old home crowd here and bringing home

617
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 4: the MVP at fourteen to one.

618
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 3: Are you making noises at him the same way I was, Brandon,

619
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 3: because I.

620
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 2: Was I'm passed raft order, Joe. I gave this out

621
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 2: in Green Dott I told you you were not allowed

622
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: to watch and copy my picks. We talked about this.

623
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, man, I was to hear it.

624
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 3: This feels like it like Donovan could absolutely like just

625
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 3: start firing and hitting like fade away corner threes on

626
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 3: the Mitchell with thirty five, like I could great.

627
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 2: It's the staff pick from last year he played in Utah.

628
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 2: He had the return game already, he dropped forty six. There.

629
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 2: He took eighteen threes, which is literally like, that's what

630
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 2: he's gonna do in this All Star Game. He has

631
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 2: six forty point games this year. He dropped seventy one

632
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 2: on the Bulls, Like, yeah, you want you're gonna take

633
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 2: just a guard that's just gonna hit a ton of

634
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 2: threes and turn bubble lightning in a bottle. Yeah, that's

635
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 2: if you're listening to this podcast, go bet on Donovan

636
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: Mitchell because he is the number one pick for all

637
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: three of us. Right, was was he your pick, Matt

638
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 2: if you would have had first pick.

639
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 3: No, he would have made my number one, but he

640
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 3: would have number my number two.

641
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, Brandon, who's.

642
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 3: Your number one? Second? I guess?

643
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 2: Sorry? Yeah, so so I literally earlier today gave out

644
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 2: the position Donovan Mitchell and Giannis and Kupo bat both

645
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 2: of them, get them together. What a great position you'll have.

646
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 2: And now I have the number two pick, where I

647
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: safely was gonna get either one of them, and one

648
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: of them is injured and the other one is gone,

649
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: and what in the world. I don't know who I want.

650
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: My third choice was gonna be Joel Embiid, but Joel

651
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: Embiid's odds tanked after Giannis got injured. So I'm just

652
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 2: gonna talk this through because I really I don't know

653
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 2: who I'm taking right now. What I want mostly an

654
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: All Star MVP. I know, I just talked about the

655
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 2: Don Mitchell three points thing. That's what Steph did last year.

656
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: What I want most of the time is I just

657
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 2: want the hustle guy who's going to try really hard

658
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 2: in the game, the one wants to win MVP. It's like,

659
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 2: I know that he didn't even win MVP for it,

660
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 2: but I can't get out of my head watching David

661
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 2: Lee throwback Nick in an All Star game, just getting

662
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: offensive rebound after offensive rebound an All Star game and

663
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 2: just like laying it back up and d just because

664
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 2: he tried. He just ran hard and tried and ran

665
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 2: in transition and got rebounds from all the miss three

666
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 2: and then just made shots. That's why I want you, honest.

667
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 2: If Jannis were healthy, he would be the pick here.

668
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna take credit for it because I can't

669
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: take him because he's injured. We don't really know, but

670
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 2: I didn't realize this. Do you guys know that Yannis

671
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 2: is the current all time All Star game leading points

672
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 2: per game score. He ever just twenty nine points a game.

673
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 4: That's why not even surprising, honestly, that you're sitting now,

674
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 4: that you sit like, let into it with that, it's

675
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 4: not surprising.

676
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 2: It's not surprising that it's still wild, like twenty nine,

677
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 2: he's twenty nine to nine. He's scored at least twenty

678
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 2: five all but one. That's six All Star games too.

679
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 3: By the way, because your guys are gone, I have

680
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 3: a suggestion for you, Okay, who would annoy you the

681
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 3: most to win this?

682
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 2: That's That's basically what I'm trying to choose between. That's

683
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 2: why I'm like, hmm, do I take Embiid or do

684
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 2: I take Kyrie?

685
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 3: What about Lebron? How annoyed would you be if Lebron

686
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 3: didn't play in these last couple of games, comes in

687
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 3: and wins this.

688
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 2: No, I would I would not be annoyed at all.

689
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: I would fully expect Lebron, who is the goat of

690
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,959
Speaker 2: That was an of at the end of it. If

691
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 2: you're just the goat, you're the goat. But if you're

692
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 2: the goat of he is the goat of exhibition games

693
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 2: to try really hard when everyone's watching. I honestly, Lebron

694
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 2: was gunning for All Star MVP last year twenty fifth

695
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 2: year thing was that last year or two years ago?

696
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 2: That was last year?

697
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 4: Right? Yeah?

698
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, last year.

699
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, he wanted it, Like you could tell he wanted it.

700
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 2: He came out and suddenly, like Steph made like seven

701
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 2: hundred threes in the third corn and was like, oh, okay, cool,

702
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 2: well you can have this one. But Lebron has three

703
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: All Star MVPs. Happens to be tied with some guy

704
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: named Michael. The most all time is four. Lebron knows that.

705
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 2: I guarantee Lebron wants an MVP, So I think Lebron

706
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 2: could win and be last year at thirty six, ten

707
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 2: and four, I think he could have win. I know

708
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 2: guys I don't want I don't want any other guys

709
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 2: I haven't talked about. I don't want anything to do

710
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 2: with Luca, I don't want anything to do with Jokic.

711
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 2: I cannot be tempted by the long odds at the

712
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 2: best player in the league MVP, because Jokic does not

713
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: take this seriously. And I don't want Luca the night

714
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: after partying hanging out. It is their partying and you

715
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 2: I don't want to find out.

716
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 4: I think they said Luca gained like a pound per

717
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 4: day when you just missed that like week and a half.

718
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: I mean who among us?

719
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 4: Right? Yeah?

720
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 3: I honestly respect to him.

721
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 4: Bulking season.

722
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 2: Okay, here here's my question. What for this contest? What

723
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 2: am I playing the odds currently up at FanDuel? Or

724
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 2: am I getting like if I'm taking Lebron or Embiid.

725
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna choose Between what number am I

726
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: getting for you?

727
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 3: I will give you the I will give you the

728
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 3: numbers that you put in the app the in the dock.

729
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, So I will take then for our contest.

730
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: I will take Embiid. Then who would have been my

731
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 2: third choice? So plus nine hundred is what we've got

732
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 2: in the dock. I still think it's decent value. That

733
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 2: surprised me. But here's the angle on Embiid and here's

734
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 2: why I think it actually could be good. And Matt,

735
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 2: You're gonna like this angle. This is another cynical angle.

736
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: Joel Ebid is gonna end up on one team opposite

737
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 2: a different gain another team, and that's Nicola Jokic. And

738
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 2: I don't know if Joel Embiid tries any give a night,

739
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 2: anytime ever, but if he's playing against in a big

740
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: game on television, he's he's gonna try. He thinks he

741
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 2: is the MVP of the world, and he's gonna try

742
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: and dunk all over Jokic. And he had thirty six

743
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 2: and ten last year. I think he was probably going

744
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 2: to be the MVP tel stuff took off, So I'll

745
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 2: just take embid now that we got.

746
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 3: That down on paper and locked in. This is a

747
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 3: quote from Joel Embiid after the game last night. I

748
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 3: asked if he was going to play in the game.

749
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I'm not healthy, mb told reporters post game.

750
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 3: Per the Athletics Rich Hoffman, I haven't been healthy for

751
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 3: the past three weeks or a month. I was just

752
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:29,959
Speaker 3: trying to get to the All Star break without missing

753
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 3: games and stuff. But I feel like I've reached a

754
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 3: point where I really need to follow the doctor's advice.

755
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 3: Back then, he said I should have been sitting for

756
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 3: two weeks. We're gonna see how the next few days

757
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 3: go and go from there.

758
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 2: Well, so an All Star game with no Jannis, no Lebron,

759
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 2: and no Embiid and no by the way, no Durant,

760
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: no Zion, no staff. This is gonna be great. Can

761
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 2: I come to the Salt Lake City? Matt sounds like funat.

762
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 3: The secret is to leave on Sunday. I'm just gonna

763
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 3: go ahead and tell you that, Like the secret is

764
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 3: to leave on Sundays. That's what I do. Okay, So

765
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 3: that's Brandon's very very slow pick of a B plus

766
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 3: nine hundred. I'm gonna take Kyrie Irving ten to one.

767
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 3: Kyrie's been absolutely cooking. He looked awesome in the last

768
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 3: game that he played. Now he's banged up too. We'll

769
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 3: see his back tightened up, and he missed the Wednesday

770
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 3: game versus the Nuggets, So we'll see. But it would

771
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 3: be very Kyrie to go through this entire thing and

772
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 3: then have a performance where he re is like he

773
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: controls the narrative of like give that man his flowers,

774
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 3: Like that's a very Kyrie thing to do. The other

775
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 3: thing here is you mentioned kind of who's gonna go

776
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 3: for it. There's another element of this, which is oftentimes

777
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 3: unique guys that the other guys will want to give

778
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 3: it to. I don't know if they're gonna want to

779
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 3: give it to Jah, who I think will try and

780
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 3: win this MVP. I don't think they're gonna want to

781
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: let the youngster get MVP versus they will, Like everyone

782
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 3: loves Kai, every player in the NBA loves Kyrie Irving,

783
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 3: and we could do an entire podcast about why that's

784
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 3: very alarming, but we're not going to do that right now,

785
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 3: and instead, I'm just going to take Kyrie Irving plus

786
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 3: one thousand. I get ten to one for a guy

787
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 3: that can easily drop forty in this game if he

788
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 3: gets drafted to a team where the other guys are resting,

789
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 3: if it's a bunch of injured guys, like he might

790
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 3: play thirty five minutes and just absolutely tear it up.

791
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 3: So I getting Kyrie at ten to one. It's not

792
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 3: Donovan at fourteen to one. But I actually think that

793
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 3: the number is still like, I think both these those

794
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 3: numbers are mispriced. So I'll take Kyrie Irving at ten

795
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 3: to one. We get one wildcard pick. From any of

796
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 3: the other categories. We start with me and I am

797
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 3: going to take from the three point contest. I'm going

798
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 3: to take Laurie marketIn at plus six fifty. So Laurie

799
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 3: popped in a bunch of the numbers that I put

800
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 3: I put together for this thing. So, for example, Lourie's

801
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 3: thirty nine percent above the break on handoff threes. That's

802
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 3: a really good figure. He actually shoots a high number

803
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 3: of handoff which that's surprising considering he's a big man.

804
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 3: Catch and shoot numbers. Overall, he's only thirty five percent,

805
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: but he's much better in handoff situations from the right

806
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 3: corner LORII forty six percent. That's third best from that

807
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 3: right corner, behind Heeled and Tatum, by the way, who

808
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 3: probably deserves a little bit of consideration as well. Even

809
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 3: with his overall numbers not being as good. Tatum's corner

810
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 3: numbers are great. Lauri from the left corner is fifty

811
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 3: nine percent this season on a pretty deep on the

812
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 3: last couple of seasons from a pretty decent number of attempts.

813
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 3: The concern with guys like market In is conditioning from

814
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: the perspective of you got to hit like they have

815
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 3: to have the legs to finish the cycle. Last year,

816
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 3: I was like, no, there's no way Karl Anthony Towns wins,

817
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 3: like he was a no bet for me. Whoops, right,

818
00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 3: had some wins, had some losses. That one was a

819
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 3: lot us. I actually think the game market in here

820
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 3: at a pretty high number is pretty good value considering

821
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 3: how good of a shooter he is, the fact that

822
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 3: he's in Utah right, like this is like a home

823
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 3: that you get the hometown bump in reflection of this,

824
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 3: and you know, the number on him has actually has

825
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 3: stayed pretty stable at six and a half to one.

826
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 3: So I'll take market in plus six fifty is my

827
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 3: wild card for this round. Next up on the board

828
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 3: is going to be Joe, Joe, who do you want

829
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 3: for your wildcard pick?

830
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 4: So, from like a math perspective, I guess the best

831
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 4: thing to target here for purposes of our competition is

832
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 4: probably a three point contest, just because I know that

833
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 4: one of them can't win, and that's Julius Randall.

834
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 2: And so.

835
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 4: I agree, though I think, but I think that I'm

836
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 4: going to take I'm gonna take Caliburton, so I get

837
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 4: a little bit of something on him, and I think

838
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 4: part of it's because you know him, Buddy, their friend,

839
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 4: they're on the same team. I think there will be

840
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 4: some friendly competition, but I think there will also be

841
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 4: even though he's never played in this competition before. I

842
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 4: think he's gonna have a conversation with Buddy about like

843
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 4: where do I put this rack? How do I do this?

844
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 4: And maybe get a couple of tips from the vet.

845
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 4: And you know, his three point numbers are good. You know,

846
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 4: he's he's got a it's a he has a weird shot,

847
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,959
Speaker 4: but it's been working for him. He's shooting almost forty

848
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 4: percent from three, and a lot of that's on his own,

849
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 4: so that's but you know where he's kind of going

850
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 4: into a shot. But I like the percentages. And in

851
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 4: this contest where realistically I think that there's seven contestants

852
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 4: this this is just a spot that I have to

853
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 4: attribute one hundred dollars of our budget too.

854
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 3: So I'll take Caliburn another three point contest. I will

855
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 3: say the strategically like I wanted Lori just because like

856
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 3: I've looked at the numbers, but like, strategically one of

857
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 3: us and like a Brandon, I'm gonna lean on you

858
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 3: for this like you should just take the dunk contest, Like,

859
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 3: just just take the take.

860
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 2: Just yeah, that's why I was with this with this

861
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 2: last pick here, I was just going to just total

862
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 2: one game here, just be like, well, I'll just take

863
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 2: the other dunk guy. I now have two of the

864
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 2: four guys, and that's a completely unactionable content. But yeah,

865
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 2: one of us, from a game three perspective, should have

866
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 2: just stay. I didn't know who is it, Trey Murphy.

867
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 2: Is that our leftover guy? That would be the correct

868
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 2: move to make from from Like when you said the

869
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 2: math thing, I was like, dog, gommy, he's doing my

870
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 2: thing again. But yeah, I didn't go that far. That far.

871
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: So I'll all round this out with a pick that

872
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 2: I would never have imagined that I was making. I

873
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 2: was up at two thirty last night crunching my numbers

874
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 2: and prepping for this because that's what I do. And

875
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: I don't have this guy bowled out anything there. I

876
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 2: don't want the dunk guy because I Trey Murphy is

877
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe he'll win. I don't remember Trade

878
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 2: Murphy dunking ever before. Like I can't close my eyes

879
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: and think of Trey Murphy dunking that seems not great

880
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 2: for a dunk contest.

881
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 3: He's got some, he's got some some cockback on the sorry.

882
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 2: He's good. The thing I watched a little highlights with him.

883
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 2: The thing that I didn't like about him as a

884
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 2: as a dunk's better. He's a little too smooth. It's

885
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 2: like a little too easy casual. Like remember that Tracy

886
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 2: McGrady thing where everything just looks so easy for him,

887
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 2: But it was like, no, you're really awesome. I'm not

888
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 2: saying he's Tracy McGrady, but like, you need you need

889
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 2: the style and the pizazz, and I think Tray is

890
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 2: like a little too cool for it. Maybe, so I

891
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 2: didn't like that about him. Three point shootout. I think

892
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 2: it's interesting just because tell me if I'm wrong. Other

893
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 2: than Julius, I don't feel like I would be at

894
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 2: all surprised any of the other seven could win this thing, right, Like,

895
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: is there any name other than Julius that you'd be like,

896
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: oh wow, Halliburton or Herder or Tatum or here, like

897
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 2: I think anyone just like, oh yeah, they got hot

898
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 2: and hit a ton of shots.

899
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, he agrees, sounds about right.

900
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I go back and forth on Tatum

901
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 3: just because his efficiency hasn't been on part. But then

902
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 3: I look at it at the corner numbers and he

903
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 3: may just hit the moneyball rack twice. So yeah, I

904
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:57,919
Speaker 3: would agree that that probably this should be a little

905
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 3: bit more.

906
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 2: Even well, speaking of going back and for on Tatum,

907
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Tatum, but not for three points. I'm

908
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 2: a take four All Star MVP ten to one. And

909
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 2: I'm surprised myself here because he was not even really

910
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 2: on my list to consider. But I'm kind of just

911
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 2: going through process elimination here. We don't know if Janness plays,

912
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 2: we don't know if Lebron plays, we don't know how

913
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 2: much like I think most likely outcome would be that

914
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 2: Giannis Lebron and being some of these guys do play

915
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 2: because the NBA wants them to and whatever, but they

916
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 2: do like the ten and fifteen minute thing. Whatever you

917
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: talked about with Kyrie. I like Kyrie. He would have

918
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: been my pick if he was available here. Let me

919
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 2: specify I like Kyrie as a selection here. I don't

920
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: want just that clip of Brandon likes Kyrie. I don't

921
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 2: need that out there. His All Star numbers eighteen, six

922
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 2: and nine, he actually has really really good assist numbers

923
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 2: in the All Star Game for his career, and he

924
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 2: did win MVP once before Kyrie did. Jason Tatum is

925
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 2: another one of those guys that, as far as I

926
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 2: can tell, NBA players love him. Everybody thinks Jason Tatum

927
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 2: is the next thing. He's Jason Tatum absolutely guaranteed wants

928
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 2: to win the Kobe Trophy. He wants that trophy sometime

929
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 2: in his corner. You know that, yep. And if there's

930
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 2: just not enough people out here scoring, like why why

931
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 2: it wouldn't Tatum just be like, all right, well, I'm

932
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 2: not gonna let Shade go in MVP or Jaw or someone.

933
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna like take all the shots. And this

934
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 2: is stupid. I'm I'm the only one here and I'm

935
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 2: not the MVP favorite as the number one Celtics the

936
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 2: whole season. I'll show you, guys, I don't know. I honestly,

937
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:32,919
Speaker 2: I think ten to one is a little too long

938
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: for him. I agree, I think that there are others

939
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 2: more likely, but I think it's not a great number.

940
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: So in a in a game that is increasingly open

941
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 2: with like we don't know who's playing, Tatum could be

942
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 2: kind of the star on the court, so I'll take him. Okay.

943
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 3: So to wrap up, Joe took the rookies plus one

944
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 3: seventy five for the skills competition. Is that your best

945
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 3: bet on that?

946
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 4: I think that's my best bet. Actually, yeah, I like

947
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 4: the rookies there.

948
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 3: Brett Brandon are the Are, the Are are the flying Giannice's.

949
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 2: I would bet their rookie is or pass in.

950
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, the Jazz are my best bet at

951
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 3: plus one hundred three point contest. I took Buddy Healed,

952
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 3: That's my best bet at plus four twenty. Joe's got

953
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,919
Speaker 3: hurt Heer at plus seven to fifty, Brandon's got Dame

954
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 3: at plus four seventy Dunk contest, Brandon took mc McClung

955
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 3: plus one fifty. I've got kJ martin plus two ninety.

956
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 3: Joe took the Nick at plus two eighty. All Star

957
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 3: Game MVP. Joe's best bet is Donovan Mitchell. I would

958
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 3: think that, like I would say that that Donovan is

959
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 3: my number two best bet, and Brandon, Donovan's your best bet.

960
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:39,760
Speaker 2: For MVP.

961
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 3: Brandon took m B plus nine hundred because everyone else

962
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 3: is hurt and b will probably not play too. I

963
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 3: took Kyrie plus one thousand. That's my best bet for

964
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 3: All Star Game MVP, and then wild cards. I've got

965
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,760
Speaker 3: Lori three point contest plus six fifty, Joe's got Tyre's

966
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 3: Haliburton three point Contest plus eight hundred because he needs

967
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 3: to lose more money on Tyrey's this year. And Brandon

968
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 3: has got Jason Tatum All Star MVP at ten to one.

969
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 3: That'll do it For this NBA All Star Weekend betting preview,

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